Kevin Owen McDonnell, Barman, Bangor Erris, County Mayo will be sentenced next month after being found guilty of raping two children. The girls were aged 8 and 10 years when they were systematically raped in the toilets of the pub where McDonnell worked in Bangor Erris, County Mayo.
There have been calls for Barmen/women to be vetted as they have access to children. A Mayo man is to be sentenced next month for regularly sexually assaulting and raping two children in the pub where he worked over 11 years ago.
The 39-year-old McDonnell, was convicted at the Central Criminal Court having been tried on 56 charges of sexual assault and rape on dates between June 1999 and September 2000.
The trial heard the girls were between eight and 10 years old at the time of the abuse.
They would go to one of the girls' mother's workplace after school and had developed the practice of watching cartoons in a nearby pub where they regularly used the toilet. They were sexually abused and Raped during these visits by the accused who was a barman.
One of the girls gave evidence that she did not report the abuse until 2008 because she thought it was her own fault. After McDonnell was convicted one victim said her life could now "really begin" while the other said it was a "dream come true".
